Fairies in my Back Yard
There are creatures among us who live without drama or distraction, who manage to make the world eve...

This is an untitled piece I never liked that much, but several people have told me what they like about it - the subtle way the golds and greens are reflected across the river, the fine lines in the rocks reminiscent of Pitre, the talk of spring and mist and fog and newness.
Why it has escaped the purging bonfires, and why I keep it, is if you haven't noticed, many of my paintings are completed on New Years Day, year after year. This, I think, is the earliest of those, painted on New Years Day 1993. I'm not sure why I'm always painting on New Years Day but happy that I am.
There are creatures among us who live without drama or distraction, who manage to make the world eve...
I have never really been drawn to creating landscape paintings. I do them now and then but it always...
Say what you want about California, about the overabundance of liberals, about a corrupt and bankrup...
John Pitre was one of my earliest art influences. Before the internet, we already knew of the depers...